If Canada can 't trust women with a choice, how can Canada trust women with children? If Canada legislates a law on abortion, the country is telling women that their unborn "fetus [has] more constitutional rights than [her]."(Abortion Rights at Risk) If Canada places restrictions on, or if Canada makes abortions illegal this also increases the risks women face when they choose to have an abortion. With their choice gone, woman are forced into the position where they will have to endanger their lives as the law prevents them from receiving a safe abortion. By also having no law on abortion, it gives teenagers who become pregnant a choice, as teen pregnancy is dangerous on both the baby and the mother both emotionally and physically. The lives
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Denying this choice to women, forces the would be mother into a submissive role in society. Condemning this woman to a life as a second class citizen, since in various societies, mothers are considered second class citizens whose role alone in life is to raise and bear more children. Once a woman becomes a mother, her resources to education, employment, and health care become severely limited. By allowing these women to have the option to a legal abortion, women are finally allowed to have the basic right of controlling their own body. As "there is no way to grant separate rights to the eggs and fetuses without removing rights from women." (Abortion Rights at Risk) Also, if the woman 's rights are removed, the quantity of woman who are subjected to the horror of arrest, detention or forced intervention by state authorities will exceed the number of 400 cases between the years 1973 and 2005. Recently, Alabama U.S.A a new law states, a fetus has the right to an attorney in cases where a teenager is seeking an abortion without parental consent. In 1967, Justice Minister Pierre Trudeau introduced a bill, known as the Criminal Law Amendment, 1968-69.Trudeau’s bill made an exception for abortions to be performed in a hospital setting with the approval of that hospital’s three-doctor therapeutic abortion committee. The role of the abortion committee was to “decide whether it was in the BEST INTERESTS of a woman to get an abortion”(Mr. Gibb, Abortion as a Social Issue) An issue that arises from the amendment was that it allowed the hospitals to “stack the deck” by only choosing the doctors that were against the idea of abortion. In Alabama the judge or jury could be stacked against the teenager as a ploy to prevent the abortion, and to inform the parents of her pregnancy. By placing a law or restrictions on abortion, Canada is effectively violating a woman 's charter
Denying this choice to women, forces the would be mother into a submissive role in society. Condemning this woman to a life as a second class citizen, since in various societies, mothers are considered second class citizens whose role alone in life is to raise and bear more children. Once a woman becomes a mother, her resources to education, employment, and health care become severely limited. By allowing these women to have the option to a legal abortion, women are finally allowed to have the basic right of controlling their own body. As "there is no way to grant separate rights to the eggs and fetuses without removing rights from women." (Abortion Rights at Risk) Also, if the woman 's rights are removed, the quantity of woman who are subjected to the horror of arrest, detention or forced intervention by state authorities will exceed the number of 400 cases between the years 1973 and 2005. Recently, Alabama U.S.A a new law states, a fetus has the right to an attorney in cases where a teenager is seeking an abortion without parental consent. In 1967, Justice Minister Pierre Trudeau introduced a bill, known as the Criminal Law Amendment, 1968-69.Trudeau’s bill made an exception for abortions to be performed in a hospital setting with the approval of that hospital’s three-doctor therapeutic abortion committee. The role of the abortion committee was to “decide whether it was in the BEST INTERESTS of a woman to get an abortion”(Mr. Gibb, Abortion as a Social Issue) An issue that arises from the amendment was that it allowed the hospitals to “stack the deck” by only choosing the doctors that were against the idea of abortion. In Alabama the judge or jury could be stacked against the teenager as a ploy to prevent the abortion, and to inform the parents of her pregnancy. By placing a law or restrictions on abortion, Canada is effectively violating a woman 's charter